Editing Leisel Jones (section)

===2004 Olympics===
In Athens, Jones was again the quickest qualifier of the [[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke|100-metre breaststroke]], after setting an Olympic record (1:06.78) in the semifinals, which was almost two seconds clear of the then second fastest swimmer in the event's history, [[Amanda Beard]].  However, in the final race she finished in the bronze position.  In the [[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke|200-metre breaststroke]], she attempted to take an attacking approach, but faded in the last 50 metres and was pipped to the wall by Amanda Beard, winning silver.  Australia went on to win the 4×100-metre medley relay, giving Jones her first Olympic gold.

Jones' world record in the 100-metre breaststroke was broken at the [[2005 World Aquatics Championships]] in Montreal, Canada by Jessica Hardy of the United States in 1:06.20, again in the semifinal. However, this time the expectations turned to Hardy and Jones turned the tables and beat her to the wall, breaking through for her first win at world or Olympic level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Montreal_2005/results/sw.php |title=Montreal 2005 Results |access-date=9 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128064425/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Montreal_2005/results/sw.php |archive-date=28 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  She also broke the world record for the 200-metre breaststroke (2:21.72), on 29 July 2005.  In the process she won the gold medal, leaving her rivals more than six metres behind.  For her efforts she was named by ''[[Swimming World magazine]]'' as the [[Swimming World Swimmers of the Year|Female World Swimmer of the Year]] in 2005.

The changes which occurred in 2005 continued to pay off at the Australian Commonwealth Games Swimming Trials in early 2006 where Jones broke her personal best time in the 50-metre breaststroke (30.85) and took 1.18 seconds off her previous world record in the 200-metre breaststroke (2.20:54).  On Day 5 of the Australian Nationals Jones swam a world record in the 100-metre breaststroke final.  Jones won the Australian championship in a time of 1:05.71 which lowered the previous mark by 0.49 of a second.

Jones completed a clean sweep of the breaststroke events (50-, 100- and 200-metre) at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]]—the only time this has been achieved in the breaststroke events in the games' history.  In the butterfly events (50-, 100- and 200-metre) at the 2002 Manchester Games, [[Petria Thomas]] was the first swimmer in Commonwealth Games history to complete a clean sweep.  The 50-metre events were introduced at the Manchester Games.  In the 50-metre breaststroke, an event she had only recently begun competing in, she defeated the reigning world champion and world record-holder [[Jade Edmistone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Schedule+and+Results/By+Sport/Aquatics%20Swimming |title=Swimming Schedule and Results |access-date=22 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811124308/http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Schedule%2Band%2BResults/By%2BSport/Aquatics%2BSwimming |archive-date=11 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  She later won another gold in the 200-metre breaststroke and completed the sweep with the gold medal in the 100-metre in a world record time of 1:05.09 – an effort that saw her own world record reduced 0.62 of a second and was declared "Beamonesque" by aquatics journalist Craig Lord, a reference to [[Bob Beamon]]'s legendary long jump at the Mexico City Olympics.  A fourth gold medal in world record time in the 4×100-metre medley relay with [[Sophie Edington]], [[Jessicah Schipper]] and [[Libby Trickett|Libby Lenton]] rounded off her Commonwealth Games.

In 2007, she competed in the World Championships and won the 100-metre breaststroke,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php |title=12th FINA World Championships |access-date=9 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606111744/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php |archive-date= 6 June 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 200-metre breaststroke, and 4×100-metre medley relay, setting a world record in the relay.  She also won silver in the 50-metre breaststroke.  She then left Brisbane and Widmer to move to Melbourne to train under [[Rohan Taylor]], so that she could live with her fiancé [[Marty Pask]], an [[Australian rules football]]er with the [[Western Bulldogs]].  Her dissolution of a successful partnership raised eyebrows and many questioned whether putting her personal life ahead of a proven competitive formula would backfire in the pool.

In early 2008, she won the breaststroke double at the [[2008 Australian Swimming Championships]] to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.

Although missing the [[2008 FINA Short Course World Championships|World Short Course Championships in Manchester]] due to the preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics she broke her own world record over 100-metre breaststroke (SC) in 1:03.72 at the Telstra Grand Prix in Canberra.